Geoff Bennett:
Residents of Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region are still adapting to life under federal control after the president seized authority over the city’s police force and deployed the National Guard.
Nearly 400 people have been arrested in the capital since the takeover last week, and today Mississippi and Louisiana joined a number of other Republican-led states in sending hundreds more troops to the nation’s capital.
In recent days, our team has fanned out across the city to hear how daily life has changed and what residents make of the president’s move.
Hundreds of National Guard troops are now stationed around parts of Washington, D.C., and its iconic landmarks. Nightly checkpoints have become routine in some areas of the city…
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